The protest occurred in Lagacharla village of Dudyala mandal.
Hyderabad:
At least 55 folks in Telangana’s Vikarabad district had been detained on Tuesday for allegedly attacking authorities officers throughout a protest towards acquisition of land for a pharmaceutical mission. The protest occurred in Lagacharla village of Dudyala mandal, which falls below Kodangal meeting seat represented by Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy.
Four officers – Kodangal Area Development Authority (KADA) chairman Venkat Reddy, Deputy Superintendent of Police Srinivas Reddy, Additional Collector Lingya Naik and Mandal Revenue Officer Vijay Kumar – sustained accidents after villagers attacked the officers with sticks and threw stones at them.
Inspector General of Police (Multi Zone II) V. Satyanarayana informed information company IANS that the assault on officers was “pre-planned” allegedly by Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) youth wing chief B Suresh Raj, who’s on the run.
Satyanarayana additionally mentioned that police consider 100-110 folks participated within the assault. “We will take stringent motion towards those that took half within the assault and people who instigated them,” he mentioned.
The incident occurred when a group of officers, led by Collector Prateek Jain, visited the village to hunt the locals’ opinion on the proposed land acquisition for the pharma mission.
Officials conscious of the main points mentioned the federal government is making an attempt to accumulate 1,358 acres of land for the pharma mission. Farmers, nevertheless, claimed the compensation provided is decrease than market charges, and have expressed their apprehensions about dropping their land and residential.
Police mentioned the Collector’s workplace had arrange a camp on Monday on the outskirts of Lagacharla to hunt public opinion when Raj approached the officers and urged them to go to the village as an alternative for the dialogue. As the collector and his group reached the spot, the villagers attacked them and raised slogans akin to “collector return”.
“Raj had folks able to assault the officers who confirmed up,” Satyanarayana mentioned.
Meanwhile, the staffers on the Collector’s workplace staged a dharna towards the assault, even because the official mentioned he was not attacked by the villagers. Other authorities staff within the district boycotted their duties on Tuesday and staff in the remainder of the state wore black badges, to protest towards the assault.
In an unique interview with NDTV, Telangana minister Sridhar Babu mentioned the state authorities has taken a severe view of the assault, which was deliberate by “political components”. “There is a conspiracy to cease growth in Telangana,” he mentioned.
He additionally dismissed BRS working president Okay T Rama Rao’s allegation that the pharma mission would profit a relative of Chief Minister Reddy.